I am torn this year - planning ahead for what I want to accomplish in November.  I have not yet finished Gideon's Curse, the novel I wrote the year before last.  The reason I post about this here is that "The Preacher's Marsh," the novella that ends this collectoin, is a portion of "Gideon's Curse." The novel languishes at 50,000 words.  That's what I get for not completing the whole thing at the time.  It's a troublesome book, though.  It covers generations of family members.  Some of those generations contain characters carrying on a family name, and so it gets confusing.  Time warps oddly. What I'd like to do is to finish that book this year, but there is only one way that can happen.  I have to start from the beginning, revise the chapters up to the point where I quit, and then write on from there.  It's the only way to get it fresh in my mind, and it's the only way I can be sure I iron out the twists and turns that bedeviled me the first time I set out to write it. Unless something changes - I do have a Stargate Atlantis novel to write soon (if ...